> We're historically prone to having people (especially at CSD) assume > that an earlier deletion is itself a strong black mark - if an > article was deleted earlier, there must have been a good reason for > it, they figure.
If, on NPP, I find that an article has been recreated, it's usually either a newbie or a troll (usually an incredibly persistent newbie) copy and pasting *the exact same article* and hitting publish. It's usually a speedily-deleted article. Just a possible explanation for that assumption. Emily On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > 2010/1/21 The Cunctator <[email protected]>: >> Just restored a former prime minister. > > I am carefully staying out of this on all sides (hey, I've got a > weekend off, I'm looking forward to some peace), but this flags up one > issue I'd really like to see brought up in these discussions: > > * an emphasis that these are "procedural" deletions, and not in any > way reflective of the merits of the topic of the article. > > A high proportion of these unsourced-BLPs are going to be on the sorts > of topics that no-one will particularly cry to see deleted; drive-by > puff pieces and contentless stubs. However, a lot more will simply be > "bad articles on good topics"; significant figures, whose notability > even the most exclusionist would agree on, but who we have not yet > managed to write a halfway decent article on. (I could name a few, > easily!) > > We're historically prone to having people (especially at CSD) assume > that an earlier deletion is itself a strong black mark - if an article > was deleted earlier, there must have been a good reason for it, they > figure. Whatever comes out of this, it would be good to see something > firmly stating that these articles were deleted because they were > textually bad, not conceptually bad, and people are encouraged to > recreate them as better versions. > > (and now, back to planning my trip) > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
